NEW PHOTO!
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 Dueling with ARTEMIS Tuesday Night, September 13 |
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Tuesday Night, August 23 |
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Tuesday Night, July 26 |
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From the 2002 Newfoundland trip Sailing in Aviron Bay |
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Revised PHRF splits for 2011 still put us in PHRF B.
| 2011 RACING SEASON Calendar of Events |
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| DATE | EVENT | CREW |
| 2011 RACING SEASON Racing Results |
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| NO. | DATE | EVENT | RESULT | COMMENTS |
| 1 | Saturday, April 16, 2011 | BCYA Icebreaker | 4th out of 7 | Wind W 15-25 kt made for good sail. Reach the whole way. The Olson twins caught us, but we beat one of them! |
| 2 | Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 6th out of 8 | Stayed left in lift, but should have gone to right for more breeze. Light air until last ¼ mile leg when we saw 22 kt. |
| 3 | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 4th out of 9 | Vigorous sailing, wind SSE 15-25 kt with higher gusts. Reefed main and genoa but flew the spinnaker successfully. |
| 4 | Tuesday, May 3, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 6th out of 9 | Quite windy pre-race, but settled down to 8-18 kt. Third after first spin run, but lost three places on next leg by not going left! |
| 5 | Tuesday, May 10, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 9th out of 9 | Light air, we couldn't get moving very fast. |
| 6 | Tuesday, May 17, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 8th out of 9 | Vigorous and variable wind NE 10-22 kt but one of those nights when everything went wrong. Too many mistakes and bad decisions. |
| 7 | Tuesday, May 24, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 5th out of 9 | Light W-WSW 5-8 kt. We sailed well, first to windward mark and just slipping to third at spinnaker dowse. Photo-finish with Artemis for third but PHRF pushed us down to fifth. |
| 8 | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 7th out of 9 | Light SSE 4-8 kt. Sailed with cruising main (9 oz Dacron) and lots of extras on board. Were in cruising frame of mind! |
| Ocean time! Infrared cruised to Newport, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Cutty Hunk, June 4 - 24.
See the trip log at http://catonsvilleyachtclub.com/infrared/Newport2011/ |
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| 9 | Tuesday, June 28, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 8th out of 9 | Just back from cruise to Newport and vicinity. Boat, crew slow. |
| 10 | Tuesday, July 5, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 8th out of 9 | We did get racing main installed, but still slow. Bottom to be cleaned this Friday. |
| 11 | Saturday, July 9, 2011 | BCYA Race To Baltimore | DNF | Wind died, but no one else in the PHRF B fleet finished either! |
| 12 | Tuesday, July 12, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 5th out of 11 | W 10-15 kt made for great sailing. We annoyed Gael Force at the start, but otherwise sailed much better! |
| 13 | Tuesday, July 19, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | Race Cancelled! | Not enough wind to start a race! |
| 14 | Tuesday, July 26, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 5th out of 11 | Good start & initial boat speed, but bad wind shift on second leg destroyed our chances (see cartoon above). |
| 15 | Tuesday, August 2, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 9th out of 10 | Horrible start in very light air. Wind picked up but we were too far gone to finish well. We fouled Summer White at finish, but they didn't notice. |
| 16 | Tuesday, August 9, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 9th out of 10 | Only five on board and old guy on foredeck kept making mistakes...not a recipe for success! |
| 17 | Tuesday, August 16, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 10th out of 10 | It was a nightmare. |
| 18 | Tuesday, August 23, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 9th out of 10 | How we avoided DFL was a miracle! (SEE VIDEO!) |
| 19 | Tuesday, August 30, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 7th out of 10 | Light air...'nuf said. |
| 20 | Tuesday, September 6, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 5th out of 10 | Despite the threat of rain, it was a great night for sailing! A bad start and an awful douse kept us out of the money, but otherwise it was fun. |
| 21 | Saturday, September 10, 2011 | NPSA Harry Young Cup | 3rd out of 8 | Light air. Good start, but that guy wielding the shovel shifted the breeze immediately. Clawed our way back into third. |
| 22 | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 6th out of 10 | A decent night for us. Crossed finish 2 sec ahead of Artemis after a two leg duel. |
| 23 | Tuesday, September 20, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 8th out of 10 | Light air. We sailed without any errors, but the boat continues to mystify with it's slowness. |
| 24 | Tuesday, September 27, 2011 | Tuesday Night Racing | 8th out of 10 | Still slow. |
| 25 | Sunday, October 2, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 4th out of 4 | Cloudy & chilly, but W 9-12 kt made for good sailing. Close race. Greg, Harry & Bob flew poled spin. |
| 26 | Sunday, October 9, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 1st out of 2 | Sunny, warm light air. Shortened course. Too nice a day for most racers? |
| 27 | Saturday, October 15, 2011 | USS Constellation Cup | 5th out of 12 | Sunny and mild, W 20-30 kt, very fast sail. A drag race. |
| 28 | Sunday, October 16, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 2nd out of 5 | Sunny, SSW 12-16kt, a great sail. Greg & Bob covered Artemis II and Gael Force. Boat speed much better! |
| 29 | Saturday, October 22, 2011 | BCYA Harbor Cup | 8th out of 10 in PHRF B 21th out of 33 in combined fleet. |
Sun then clouds, WNW 5-10 kt. Good start, racing well until our side of course went light and other side didn't. |
| 30 | Sunday, October 23, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 2nd out of 3 1st in Series. Pays to show up! |
Light air, short course. |
| 31 | Sunday, October 30, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 1st out of 2 | Match race with Jubilee IV and, amazingly, we stayed ahead! |
| 32 | Sunday, November 6, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 5th out of 5 | Harry and Bob weren't very slick with that spinnaker! |
| 33 | Sunday, November 13, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 5th out of 5 | Harry, Bob, Greg and Mike weren't very slick with that spinnaker! |
| 34 | Sunday, November 20, 2011 | BCYA Fall Series | 4th out of 4 3rd in Series. |
Reaching in 7 kt. |
Photo by Dave Dunigan
Spinsheet Photo by Cory Deere
Photo by PhotoBoat.com
Photo by PhotoBoat.com
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 Infrared at the wharf in St. Pierre in August, 2002, St. Pierre is the last vestige of the French empire in North America. |
 Infrared visiting Grand Bruit on the south coast of Newfoundland in 2002. Grand Bruit is a village to which there are no roads, one can only get there by boat. Population ~80 in summer, ~20 in winter. The village was officially closed by the Canadian government in 2010. |